The rational choice model, also called rational choice theory refers to a set of guidelines that help understand economic and social behaviour. The theory...

Rational choice modeling has a long history in criminology. This method was designed by Cornish and Clarke to assist in thinking about situational crime...

Rational choice institutionalism (RCI) is a theoretical approach to the study of institutions arguing that actors use institutions to maximize their utility...

Rational choice (also termed rationalism) is a prominent framework in international relations scholarship. Rational choice is not a substantive theory...

and the community at large. Because such outcomes are the result of rational choices, it is, therefore, possible to predict with some accuracy the economic...

or described as rational entities, as in rational choice theory or Downs' political agency model. The concept of bounded rationality complements the idea...

Decision theory or the theory of rational choice is a branch of probability, economics, and analytic philosophy that uses the tools of expected utility...

Rationality is the quality of being guided by or based on reason. In this regard, a person acts rationally if they have a good reason for what they do...

Social choice theory is a branch of welfare economics that extends the theory of rational choice to collective decision-making. Social choice studies the...

Rational egoism (also called rational selfishness) is the principle that an action is rational if and only if it maximizes one's self-interest. As such...

rational under the rational choice account thus might not always be considered rational under the ecological rationality account. Overall, rational choice...

backgrounds. Both Athens and Rhodes reject the genetic inheritance theories. Rational choice theory is based on the utilitarian, classical school philosophies of...

methodology and utilize analytical philosophy, and some of them favor rational choice theory, and methodological individualism (the doctrine that all social...

usually focus on either the rational choice model or the analysis of demographic trends in a society. The rational choice model suggests that people look...

(5 January 2000). "It It Rational to Assume Consumer Rationality? Some Consumer Psychological Perspectives on Rational Choice Theory". Roger Williams University...

traditionally encompasses three major strands: sociological institutionalism, rational choice institutionalism, and historical institutionalism. New institutionalism...

rational. However, the extent to which people and firms behave rationally is subject to debate. Economists often assume the models of rational choice...

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Strain Theory. Rational choice theory grew out of the expected utility principle in economic theory, i.e. that people will make rational decisions based...

influences on decision-making. Emotional choice theory is considered an alternative model to rational choice theory and constructivist perspectives. Markwica...

relations, because, like the definition of self-interest in the standard rational choice model, it fails to characterise human behaviour ethically, psychologically...

in his version of rational choice theory, as well as showing that several other approaches surreptitiously rely on rational-choice assumptions without...

to make choices, based on the assumption that the offenders actions are purposeful. Offenders consider the benefits and risks and make choices based on...

emotional decision making in legal decisions and procedures, as well as in rational choice theory. In particular, he argues that the American legal system's deeply...

public choice cannot explain why people vote due to limitations in rational choice theory. For example, from the viewpoint of rational choice theory,...

returns. Modern portfolio theory is inconsistent with main axioms of rational choice theory, most notably with monotonicity axiom, stating that, if investing...

or values enforced, however, it is argued that rational choice is not represented in this. The choice to commit a certain act, or associate with other...

decisions that appear rational (to the offenders at least) to engage in specific criminal acts. The immediate roots of rational choice theory are routine...

International Sociological Association. Subsequently, he began to deploy rational choice theory to explain a series of macrosociological problems, including...

public economics, behavioural economics, rationality, justice, history of economic thought, rational choice, the appraisal of economic outcomes, institutions...